Let’s imagine that you are an unaffiliated citizen. That you are neither one side nor the other and you face the sentence that condemns the brother of the Prime Minister for malfeasance. And you hear how some (those in power) say that the ruling is a “barbarity,” that it condemns…
More than once we have mentioned that Alberto Núñez Feijóo was much more relaxed and happy when he was president of the Xunta de Galicia than now that he serves as leader of the opposition. It is not easy at all to deal with Pedro Sánchez and endure the daily pressure of public opinion…
I confess that I read with a mixture of fascination and astonishment the columns that Mariano Rajoy publishes in El Debate about the World Cup. Fascination because it is a luxury to have a former Prime Minister writing about football. Astonishment because he has decided to give us a feast…
It has been almost twenty years since the then president of the Generalitat José Montilla warned of the growing disenchantment of the citizens towards the institutions. He was then talking about the Catalunya-Spain relationship since we were in the preamble of what later happened because…
I confess that I read with a mixture of fascination and astonishment the columns that Mariano Rajoy publishes in El Debate about the World Cup. Fascination because it is a luxury to have a former Prime Minister writing about football. Astonishment because he has decided to give us a feast…
In FIFA, it is already customary to choose pariah countries as World Cup hosts. The 2018 one was in Russia. The 2022 one in Qatar. The 2026 one in the United States. Compassion? Or, the usual, bribes? I want to think that it is a benevolent impulse on the part of the capo di tutti…
When the Pope scheduled the official visit that began yesterday in Spain, he could hardly imagine the great climate of polarization that exists in the country’s political life. Since Pedro Sánchez’s investiture, the confrontation situation resembles a pressure cooker that emits a…
This Saturday morning, the people from Panenka magazine, which would be the The New Yorker of football, invited me to a talk. I accepted because talking about football is always good and for the posturing of performing at the Panenka Fest, which would be the Primavera Sound for geeks…
Vladimir Putin is not living his best moments in Russia. The country is experiencing a certain economic stagnation and its soldiers are retreating on the Ukrainian front for the second consecutive month. Last Wednesday, the St. International Economic Forum could not have started worse…
In the old Tarzan movies, there were always greedy, white villains with rifles who wanted to hunt elephants or get their hands on some precious diamonds. To achieve this, it was essential for them to establish relationships with the local people. These were aborigines with…